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engine | mot |

In obsolete terms the difference between engine and mot

is that engine is to rack; to torture while mot is a note or brief strain on a bugle.

As a verb engine

is to assault with an engine.

As a proper noun Mot is

canaanite god of death and the underworld.

engine

English

(wikipedia engine) (Engines)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
  • (obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Against his praise to stirre vp enmitye [...].
  • (obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
  • Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
  • * Bunyan
    • You see the ways the fisherman doth take / To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
  • A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
  • * 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
    • Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine , they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].
  • A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
  • A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
  • The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
  • A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
  • (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
    • a graphics engine'''; a physics '''engine

    Synonyms

    * motor

    Derived terms

    * aero engine * aircraft engine * diesel engine * engine driver * engine trouble * engineer * fire engine * four-stroke engine * jet engine * marine engine * search engine * steam engine * tank engine * two-stroke engine

    Related terms

    * genius * ingenious * ingeniosity

    Verb

    (engin)
  • (obsolete) To assault with an engine.
  • * (rfdate) T. Adams.
    • To engine and batter our walls.
  • (dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
    • Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
  • (obsolete) To rack; to torture.
    • (Chaucer)

    External links

    * * English refractory feminine rhymes

    mot

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) mot. Compare motto.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
  • * N. Brit. Rev.
    • Here and there turns up a savage mot .
  • * 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 32:
    • ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
  • (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
  • (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • (slang, Irish English) A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.
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